Things I learned on my latest visit to the British Museum (3): the location of the Parthenon sculptures
This week, I visited the British Museum with a family of Czech friends. Of course, I’ve been to the museum on many occasions but, on each such visit, I always learn something new.
The majority of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon are roughly equally divided between the British Museum in London and the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Other pieces are held by the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Vatican Museums, the National Museum in Copenhagen, the Kunthistoriches Museum in Vienna, the University Museum in Wurzburg, and the Glypothek in Munich.